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From: earlw@pesnta.UUCP (20)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Do Hayes modems work with uucp?
Message-ID: <2855@pesnta.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 19:24:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: pesnta.2855
Posted: Fri Oct 18 19:24:37 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Oct-85 05:07:06 EDT
References: <246@geowhiz.UUCP>
Reply-To: earlw@pesnta.UUCP (pri=-20)
Organization: Perkin-Elmer DSG/CSD, Santa Clara, Ca.
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Summary: 

In article <246@geowhiz.UUCP> karsh@geowhiz.UUCP (Bruce Karsh) writes:
>I have been told that Hayes modems can not be made to work properly
>with uucp because the Hayes modem will intercept and munge some
>sequences of characters that uucp sends.  Is this true?  Has
>anybody made uucp work with Hayes modems?

pesnta has used Hayes 1200 modems for a couple of years and they do the job
of pushing news/mail/uucp quite well.  If the Hayes sees one second of
dead time, followed by +++ and another second of dead time, it will go 
'command mode' and that will cause a uucp timeout.  This should be rare.